Social sciences - Microsoft Research

The mission of the SMC is first and foremost to bring critical and analytical lenses to contemporary sociotechnical systems, particularly around media, expertise, labor, and publics. We aim to contribute to the academic fields concerned with…

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Sociotechnical Systems

Sociotechnical Systems is a network of social science and humanistic researchers, part of the Microsoft Research labs in New England. Begun in 2009, the researchers who now lead the initiative are: Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie,…

Publication

Scalable Influence Maximization for Prevalent Viral Marketing in Large-Scale Social Networks

Wei Chen, Chi Wang, Yajun Wang

Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’2010), Washington DC, U.S.A. | July 2010

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Mining Advisor-Advisee Relationships from Research Publication Networks

Chi Wang, Jiawei Han, Yuntao Jia, Jie Tang, Duo Zhang, Yintao Yu, Jingyi Guo

Proceeding of 2010 ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | July 2010